El Kef bottom 5-10m: Late/Upper Campanian, Tunisia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Holectypoida
Holectypoida indet. Duncan 1889
Echinoidea - Holasteroida - Holasteridae
Stegaster cf. guilleri
Echinoidea - Spatangoida
Spatangoida indet. Agassiz 1840
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Micrasteridae
Micraster sp. Agassiz 1836
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814
see common names

Geography
Country:Tunisia
Coordinates: 36.2° North, 8.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:22.9° North, 8.9° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:Late/Upper Campanian
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,blue lithified calcareous "shale"
Secondary lithology:yellow lithified cherty/siliceous "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: blue-grey fissile marly shale ... which contains several resistant layers of yellow marly limestones
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:47107
Authorizer:L. Ivany Enterer:P. Wall
Modifier:P. Wall Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-02-08 11:18:03 Last modified:2005-12-13 19:43:33
Access level:the public Released:2005-02-08 11:18:02
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
12551. L. Li, G. Keller and W. Stinnesbeck. 1999. The Late Campian and Maastrichtian in northwestern Tunisia: palaeoenvironmental inferences from lithology, macrofauna and benthic formainifera. Cretaceous Research 20:231-252 [L. Ivany/P. Wall/M. Uhen]